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Books reviewed by Lucia Silva at BookBrowse.

Lucia Silva

For many years, Lucia worked as a bookseller, manager, and book buyer for several independent bookstores in Los Angeles and San Diego. She has reviewed books for NPR's Morning Edition, KPBS in San Diego, and worked as an editor at BookBrowse. Now she spends her days reading and adventuring with her two young children in Athens, GA.

Books reviewed by Lucia Silva

Idaho (03/08/17)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (03/14/12)
The Snow Child (02/15/12)
Why We Broke Up (01/11/12)
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (07/08/10)
The Best of It (04/07/10)
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (12/09/09)
A Gate at the Stairs (10/21/09)
The Pattern in the Carpet (10/07/09)
Say You're One of Them (09/23/09)
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (04/01/09)
Cutting For Stone (02/05/09)
Sea of Poppies (01/07/09)
Graceling (11/12/08)
The Heretic's Daughter (10/15/08)
The Good Thief (09/04/08)
Beijing Coma (07/11/08)
Atmospheric Disturbances (07/11/08)
The Story of a Marriage (06/01/08)
The Hakawati (05/02/08)
Lush Life (04/03/08)
Resistance (03/06/08)
Mudbound (03/06/08)
Dark Roots (03/06/08)
Song Yet Sung (02/21/08)
I'm Looking Through You (02/07/08)
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (02/07/08)
In Defense of Food (01/24/08)
What I Was (01/24/08)
Cheating at Canasta: Stories (11/27/07)
Lost Paradise (11/08/07)
A Free Life (11/08/07)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (10/04/07)
The Zookeeper's Wife (10/04/07)
Tree of Smoke (09/20/07)
Away (09/20/07)

BookBrowse Book Club

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    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison
    The story of a black girl in America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others. First published 1970; won the 1993 Nobel Prize.
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    The Frozen River
    by Ariel Lawhon
    From the bestselling author of I Was Anastasia comes a historical mystery inspired by 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard, who investigates a shocking murder.
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    The Wager
    by David Grann
    From the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a gripping story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.

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